Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia . KXt ismx of km:k. ; As her disease, moreover, was of two years standing, andwas manifestly too far advanced to otter much prospect ofrecovery without operation, immediate excision was deter-mined upon, and was performed iii the usual way on Oct. 14,1873, only one ligature being required, and the wound heingdressed and the limb supported in the ordinary articular cartilages were found much eroded, and a patchof caries existed on the outer condyle of the femur. Theappearances of the resected parts are seen in the annexedil
Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia . KXt ismx of km:k. ; As her disease, moreover, was of two years standing, andwas manifestly too far advanced to otter much prospect ofrecovery without operation, immediate excision was deter-mined upon, and was performed iii the usual way on Oct. 14,1873, only one ligature being required, and the wound heingdressed and the limb supported in the ordinary articular cartilages were found much eroded, and a patchof caries existed on the outer condyle of the femur. Theappearances of the resected parts are seen in the annexedillustrations (Figs. 9 and 10). Fig. The operation was followed by very little constitutionaldisturbance; an abscess, which formed above the excisionwound, was opened on Oct. 18 ; the sutures were removed onthe 20th, and the ligature came away on the day between the resected surfaces had begun by Oct. 26,and by Dec. 12, the cure was sufficiently far advanced toallow the bracketed splint to be replaced by a simple mouldedpasteboard gutter, and the patient to sit up. By March, 1*74,though slight motion still existed as regarded flexion andextension, the patient was able to walk without any aid, the GO A8HHUE8T, limb being simply supported with a soap-plaster and superficial sinus, which healed very slowly, caused thepatient to he kept under observation an unusually long time,and she did not finally leave the Hospital until the summerof 1875 (nearly twenty months after the operation), previousto which she was presented at a meeting of the College, anda photograph was secured, from which the annex
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